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This month we are going to have some fun with text in Blender. So, start up blender and delete the default cube (select the cube, press X, and confirm the deletion). Now, press the A-key to add a new object in your scene. Add text (see image below)
The first thing that you notice is that, for some reason, blender adds text object facing the top view. I prefer to change that to face the front view so let’s rotate our text object 90 degrees on the X-axis (Press R-key, then X-key, and then press 90).
Now, using the num-pad, press 1 for front view and 5 for orthographic view. You must have something like the image below.
Now that we have a better look of our text, let’s change it. Press the tab-key to enter the edit mode. Change the default “Text” to “Full Circle Magazine”. Exit edit mode by pressing the tab-key again. Great!
But we have a very boring text (although it says “Full Circle Magazine”). With your text object selected, examine the properties window. Select the tab with an F as an icon to reveal some interesting stuff about our object.
First of all, change the name of our object from the default “Text” to “FCM”. Then, change the extrude value under Geometry to 0,2. You don't see any difference to your text. But, if you rotate your view (by holding the middle mouse button and moving your mouse, or by pressing 2,4,6 and 8 on the num-pad), you can see that we extrude our text. Great!
Also we can adjust the depth of our bevel factor.
Change the value of Depth to 0,05 and the Resolution to 10.
Ok. Now we are going to change the Fonts.
Press the file icon (the icon between F and X), and navigate to your Fonts folder. Select the font of your desire. I choose Isabella (search the repositories for ubuntustudio-font-meta package). The Geometry values that we changed earlier are not suitable for this font. I 'll make extrude = 0,05 and Bevel = 0,02.
Ok, now let’s add a box and rotate, scale, move it. Also use textures! It will be easy to create something like the image below.
To be continued…